“Old fool” is exactly right, but he’s doing it on purpose. He’s been getting laughs from his audience because he gives them permission to not understand anything, and to blame everyone else for the fact that they don’t.

“Oh and you fucked it all up? No. Your split isn’t like getting a flat tire or a paper cut or stepping in gum. It’s the result of very intentional acts on your part.”

Epstein avoided prison by using this one weird trick...

“i wasn’t offended per se, but i found suck a lazy joke coming from him really disappointing.”

I feel like the crucial difference between Gervais and Chappelle is that, to put it bluntly, Chappelle means it.

Yeah, the COVID era turned a LOT of brains into fucking pudding. People on the online right went from swallowing a red pill to deep throating the entire fucking bottle.

I will admit I'm not as into later Carlin, but he never became hacky.  He just became really cynical and sad and honestly I'm not going to blame for that.  It was just harder to watch.

One weird phenomenon is that no one can seem to be a little bit Trumpy. There are so many people like Chapelle, or Elon Musk, or Rudy Giuliani, or Lara Logan, who at one point seemed to have normal-ish views of the world. Maybe they were skeptical about COVID lockdowns (Musk) or seemed too deferential to the military…

Go back to Logic class, because your ‘argument’ is circular and unsound.

I didn’t expect to see this set, but I was at my parents’ home when they decided to watch. (While I educate where I can, I don’t police what my family watches.) So, I sat through this before reading about it. And, I have to say, this article nails it. He sounds like an old fool; one of those guys you’ll hear in any…

I tried watching a bit of the Gervais one to see how bad it was, and it was just...weird. Like, the most Boomer takes imaginable. Kept going on about things you “can’t” do anymore, or things you “have to” do these days, and I just kept thinking like, what world is this guy living in?

I’m Canadian - so excuse me butting in here - but doesn’t this a**hat have to win the Republican primary for the 4th District? Last I heard there was already at least 4 or 5 candidates throwing their hat in the ring. She might not even get the nod from the MAGA crapshow to begin with.....

My sincere hope is the site is not just back but returns to some of the former quality and insight that made it a an outsized-pop culture staple. Frankly the site had been in decline for years before its shuttering. I don’t mean to shit on you or any other writers who, I gather, have been working under less-than-ideal…

Nail Timberlake for misogyny, lying, cowardice, and disrespecting Prince (or not, sometimes Prince had it coming and there’s a whole aside there regarding his narcissism and possible abuse). All that’s fair. But as someone who grew up black in the South, I’m just going to say...

And when I called him on it before, here was the response before he dismissed my comment:

This edgelord wannabe dismisses comments that hold his feet to the fire. Poor coward.

RIP. One of the few sites I still view daily here.

It’s been a slice folks! Like it or not, I met some real wits here - IMissSplinter, Cheshire, SamBankman, Cashmere Rebel, The Thugnificent Pangaen, Barada_nikto_byotch, nopenopenopenopenopenope, Ron Swanson of Westoros, Ugh., The Ghost of James Madison’s Rage Boner (I salute you for historical and scatalogical…

I love how dumbfucks like you can rejoice in its shutdown, yet still take the time to post here.  Grow up.

RIP Jez, sorry to hear the news. Hope everyone who works here can land safely at a different gig.